Examples of friendly-government trolls in Greece of crisis

I was impressed today by an article circulated in many websites like zerohedge, the slog, etc. The title in zerohedge is "Why Trolls Start Flame Wars: Swearing and Name-Calling Shut Down the Ability to Think and Focus". I found two articles I wrote about friendly-government trolls in Greece of crisis which unfortunately were written only in Greek language. I thought it would be worth to gather key parts to make a new article in English

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When Greek government decided to close the public broadcaster (ERT) through a dictatorial way, an army of friendly-government trolls flooded forums in order to gain support from desperate and unemployed citizens for this decision and turn against those who disapproved it. It was a similar tactic of the old days in Greece of Right-wing para-state during Kostantinos Karamanlis presidency, using modern technology this time.

It was then a former Communist, George Georgalas, who advised the Karamanlis administration to face the problem of the rise of EDA (the then Left-wing party which for the first time gained 24% and second place in national elections), by organizing the so-called "anti-gatherings", which were teams of people who were "invading" in EDA's gatherings and pretended to be indignant citizens in order to break the influence of EDA in Greek society.

Today, on the internet virtual reality, a similar conflict takes place, as the friendly-government trolls invade in various websites and pretend to be indignant citizens who demand transparency and therefore approve PM's "braveness" to eliminate "corrupted" ERT.

Another example is the Cyprus case. When economic crisis hit Cypriot banks, the Cypriot parliament initially voted to reject the plan for the "haircut" of deposits, which was the term in order to receive a 10 billion euros bailout from EU and IMF. This was something that exposed Greek government as the small Cyprus dared to say "no" (even if later forced to retreat as was left totally alone without any support from Greeks, Russians or any other EU "partners"), while the Greek government was always saying "yes" to the lenders without any attempt to negotiate since the beginning of the crisis.

The hypocrisy of the Greek government was characteristic as, on the one hand, government officials were claiming that will support Cyprus whichever decision will take, while on the other hand, through the government propagandistic mechanisms, were trying to downgrade the importance of the Cypriot parliament decision, exactly because this decision was exposing them.

Such a propagandistic mechanism was the friendly-government trolls of "responsibility" who did the "dirty job" on the internet, so that this "no" of Cyprus to appear as an "irresponsible" - if not stupid - action by the Cypriot MPs.

Well, maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but only think how easy is someone to create multiple personalities on the internet and appear as indignant citizen(s). A government will need only a few people to do the job!